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05 May 16, 10:31
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Real Name: T. A. Gardner
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Venezuela goes "dry."
Seems the latest failure of the Venezuelan economy is the closure of the only domestic brewing company Polar due to inability to import ingredients, union issues, and the government restricting access to foreign capital. 10,000 workers are being laid off. The President of Venezuela is accusing the company's management of treason against the government...
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05 May 16, 10:45
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With yet another example of the failure of socialism in the forefront of the news, how do these morons keep thinking its a good idea?
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05 May 16, 11:36
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Originally Posted by Arnold J Rimmer
With yet another example of the failure of socialism in the forefront of the news, how do these morons keep thinking its a good idea?
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Because Idiots keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 
I know that it sound like a cliché, but in my opinion Magggie said it best, "socialism works until you run out of other peoples money". 
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05 May 16, 11:56
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The real dummies are the ones that seem to have the slightest idea of the different sorts of socialism and still try to comment on it as if they are knowledgeable.
For many Germany is a socialist country and guess what. The beer is still flowing in large quantity and great quality
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05 May 16, 12:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold J Rimmer
With yet another example of the failure of socialism in the forefront of the news, how do these morons keep thinking its a good idea?
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Because like Castro all they have to do is blame the Gringos for meddling with Internal affairs and hey presto it carries on. Our pinkos fall for it aswell. |
05 May 16, 13:08
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Originally Posted by Half Pint John
The real dummies are the ones that seem to have the slightest idea of the different sorts of socialism
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To name but a tithe - Primitive Socialism eg The Diggers and the Levelers
- Religious Socialism eg The Shakers
- Utopian Socialism eg Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen,
- Libertarian Socialism eg Anarchism, Mutualism etc.
- Liberal Socialism eg John Stewart Mill
- Marxist Socialism
- Market socialism eg Ricardo
- Democratic socialism eg Modern Germany
- Social Democracy eg New Labour Tony Blair
And of course National Socialism
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe (H G Wells)
Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Friedrich von Schiller)
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05 May 16, 16:35
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To name but a tithe - Democratic socialism eg Modern Germany
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Would that be like the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea?  |
05 May 16, 17:32
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No - shouldn't need to explain 'cause if you can't see it you are sadly unable to understand or to put it another simpler way - ask a silly question ...
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe (H G Wells)
Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Friedrich von Schiller)
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06 May 16, 01:48
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Real Name: T. A. Gardner
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Originally Posted by MarkV
No - shouldn't need to explain 'cause if you can't see it you are sadly unable to understand or to put it another simpler way - ask a silly question ...
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Are you really a Brit? I though the British had a dry sense of ironic humor...
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07 May 16, 05:12
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Originally Posted by copenhagen
Because like Castro all they have to do is blame the Gringos for meddling with Internal affairs and hey presto it carries on. Our pinkos fall for it aswell.
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Stopped working in Venezuela a while back. The last Presidential election was effectively stolen & the government got crushed in Congressional elections. I imagine that if there had been anything like free elections in Cuba over the past 60 years the Castros would be in a retirement home talking fondly about the 'good old days'.
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07 May 16, 10:58
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Well, let's be glad China is a socialist country, too, otherwise its economy could conceivably take of to the point were jobs are transferred from the United States to China. 
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16 May 16, 07:48
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I see the new president in the Philippines is intending to impose a form of prohibition so they will be going dry too
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe (H G Wells)
Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Friedrich von Schiller)
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16 May 16, 14:48
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Real Name: T. A. Gardner
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I see the new president in the Philippines is intending to impose a form of prohibition so they will be going dry too
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Quite a few Aussie ex-pats won't be happy...  |
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